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#163 Theology of worship, church and unity

30 Mar 2023
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Do you have to go to church to be a Christian? What should our theology of worship be? How do we know we are in the ‘correct’ denomination? Tom Wright answers these and more questions from listeners about Christian unity. An archive show first broadc...

#162 Questions on sexuality and LGBT (Classic)

23 Mar 2023
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In this replay podcast from 2019 Tom answered listener questions on how to have better conversations on sexuality in the church, co-habitation, whether the New Testament understanding of homosexuality was different to today and his thoughts on Transg...

#161 Housebound prayers, computer programming, art and music - what counts as kingdom work?

16 Mar 2023
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Tom answers practical questions about the role of those unable to be physically active - does their prayer and meditation make a difference in the kingdom? A computer programmer questions whether his work is a worthwhile activity in Kingdom terms? Ar...

#160 Why bother improving the world? Can Christians attain perfection?

9 Mar 2023
1741

Why bother with earth and not just create heaven? Why try to make the world a better place if God is going to fix it? Is the world getting better or worse because of Christianity? Can Christians achieve perfection in this life, as Wesley claimed? Tom...

#159 What difference does prayer make? Tom shares his prayer habits

2 Mar 2023
1773

Tom answers listener questions on prayer including: 'Is prayer just telling God what to do?' and 'What difference does prayer make if God has already decided what to do?'. Kelly is nervous about praying out loud before a meal in public, and Jennifer...

#158 Why don’t I hear from God any more?

23 Feb 2023
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CORRECTED AUDIO UPLOADED!Tom and Justin are back with a fresh batch of questions from listeners who are having trouble hearing from God. Nicole asks why 'Ask and you shall receive' doesn't seem to work in practise? Shelagh says she doesn't hear from...

#157 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story

16 Feb 2023
2153

Tom Wright joins Justin to answer listener questions on how to interpret the early chapters of Genesis, what he believes about the nature of Adam and Eve, whether suffering and death existed before the fall and much more… He also pulls out the guitar...

#156 Have you ever struggled with your own faith Tom?

9 Feb 2023
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Listeners want to know about Tom -  Who are his favourite authors? If he could have dinner with anyone from the 20th Century who would it be? Why is he an Anglican? Has he ever struggled with his own faith? First broadcast in 2019. • Subscribe to the...

#155 Making sense of Old Testament violence

2 Feb 2023
1823

Tom responds to listener Qs on Andy Stanley ‘unhitching’ Christianity from the Old Testament, the historicity of the Exodus, and the way that Greg Boyd interprets violent portraits of God in ‘The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God’. First broadcast in 20...

#154 Tom answers Qs on universalism, hell and salvation

26 Jan 2023
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In an extended edition of the show originally broadcast on the Unbelievable? podcast, Justin asks a variety of listener questions on dispensationalism, John’s gospel, inerrancy, salvation, hell, universalism and Tom’s favourite books, music and much...

#153 Is the Bible inerrant? Is ’Sola Scriptura’ correct? What about verses endorsing slavery?

19 Jan 2023
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How should we treat the Bible? Inerrant? Infallible? Does it contain errors? Tom answers questions on the nature of the Bible as well as related issues such as whether the Reformers were right to concentrate solely on scripture rather than church tra...

#152 - Can women lead in church? Why does 1 Timothy tell women to ’be silent’?

12 Jan 2023
1838

Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such as Ephesi...

#151 NT Wright Q&A with Bishop Joseph D’Souza on global mission - Oxford Conference Session 3

5 Jan 2023
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Tom Wright and Joseph D'Souza host a Q&A at the Reimagining Global Mission conference in Oxford covering questions on the theology of mission and discipleship.NT Wright was keynote speaker at an Oxford conference on Reimagining Mission in the Glo...

#150 NT Wright on the multi-ethnic mission of the church - Oxford Conference Session 2

29 Dec 2022
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In this second lecture from the Reimagining Global Mission conference in Oxford, Tom speaks on the multi-ethnic, multicultural, polychrome mission of the church.NT Wright was keynote speaker at an Oxford conference on Reimagining Mission in the Globa...

#149 Can we trust the Christmas story? Responding to Bart Ehrman

22 Dec 2022
1834

Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described. .....

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